Chocolate City - A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital

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Throughout four hundred years, Washington, D.C. has undergone massive transformations. Starting as a sparsely populated plantation society that grew to be a center of the slave trade, the nation’s seat of government developed into a diverse metropolis over time, eventually becoming the nation’s first majority Black city. Historians Derek Musgrove and Chris Myers Asch will discuss their book, Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital and detail the tensions between race and democracy and the impacts on slavery, segregation, civil rights, and gentrification in Washington, D.C.